
Tops in useful info, provocative ideas, and deep thinking. - Chapter Two as a separate reprint fits perfectly with teaching a one-week topic in an editing class. In my Editing for Science and Technology class at George Washington University Center for Professional Education, my students and I found the booklet ideal for homework and discussion. The students, mostly working professionals, perked up more than usual when we took on Tufte s examples and ideas. I recommend it without reservation.
Section of Visual Explanations - Just a note that this is a reprint of Chapter 2 of Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, just so Tufte fans aren t thinking they re getting something not seen before.(Space shuttle and cholera epidemic examples.)